Eric in his post – It had nothing to do with religion! The guns did it! – suggested that it was time to bring back the Pink Pistols. They are back.
West Hollywood Inundated With AMAZING Pro-Gun, Pro-Gay Posters.
On Wednesday morning, posters suddenly appeared in West Hollywood, California featuring a gay version of the Gadsden Flag featuring a rattlesnake on top of the gay rainbow. The flags also had the hashtag #ShootBack indicating a more proactive approach to gay self-defense.
The posters were attracting attention in front of the Pacific Design Center, The Abbey, West Hollywood City Hall and in front of artist Chad Michael Morrisette’s house. Morrisette had covered the roof of his house with 50 mannequins to make a statement about the Orlando shootings.
If one picture is worth a thousand words, the series of posters surely represented an eloquent plea to the LGBT community and other Americans to stand as one (thus the “Don’t Tread On Me symbol of the American Revolution), as well as a marked attempt to encourage the LGBT community to eschew their traditional pacifist role and take up arms to defend themselves, in the manner of Americans from the Minutemen of the Revolutionary War to the armed service members who defend American values to this very day.
Well OK. That is very nice. Statements. Solidarity. Resistance. Now what about guns? I’m glad you asked. Gun sales surge among gays, lesbians after Orlando shooting.
…what’s different this time around is the clientele. Mike Smith, a firearms instructor in Colorado Springs, is one of many closely tracking the sudden surge in gays and lesbians buying weapons.
“I think right now because of what happened, people are looking for answers,” he said. “You walk into a gun shop and you expect to see people, frankly, who look like me. I think we forget we’re a country of all people, not just people who fit that predetermined mold.”
The Pink Pistols is a national gun club for gays and lesbians. It saw its membership soar from about 1,500 members on Saturday to 3,500 on Monday.
Dozens of new chapters are springing up, including one Smith is creating in Colorado Springs. He said it’s something he feels compelled to do, even though he’s heterosexual.
“I look at it as a disenfranchised minority that needs someone who’s willing to say I’m a resource who’s here and willing to help,” he said.
Another chapter also appears to be forming in the Denver area. The Pink Pistols typically meet on a regular basis at firing ranges to practice shooting.
The times they are a changin.
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8 responses to “Gays Are Buying Guns”
Mike Smith, you are a good man.
I just advised a gay friend of mine to buy a gun and take shooting lessons. He listened.
Not something that has happened before.
Better late than never.
Thanks for the link!
Here’s Paul Craig Roberts claiming Orlando never happened.http://www.unz.com/author/paul-craig-roberts/
I’m off to do some Bitter Clinging today. Wondering should my next gun should be an AR-15 or a Ruger Mini-14 tactical?
Both shoot .223/5.56, both look gnarly enough to scare the panties off a liberal and I’m a natural contrarian, so the somewhat less popular Ruger seems tempting.
maybe they can shoot back at the westboro batiste church and other pastores like the one in iowa at the ted cruz rally calling for death to gays.
@captain, quite frankly, I’d be dancing in the streets if someone shot back at Westoboro Baptist as*holes. But you need to get the WHOLE clan – because they are suit-happy nutcases. You can’t leave anyone still capable of suing or you are toast.
Shoot them with the Versacci edition AR-15, designer ammo by Dolce and Gabbana.
They won’t get your gun until they pry your cold, dead, perfectly manicured fingers off the trigger.
Live fast and leave somebody else’s beautiful corpse.